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skim reading; skipping through text

Idiomatic expression

to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age

Computing

reading; readout (computer)

Company name

Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company)

to leave half-read; to leave unfinished

to read avidly

to overlook in reading

Colloquial

ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in online chatting)

to reread; to read again

Computing

reloading (a file, web page, etc.)

Proverb

you learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught

skimming through; scanning (reading matter)

the three Rs; reading, writing and arithmetic

to misread; to mispronounce

to lead (a man) around by the nose

dyslexia; paralexia; reading disorder

reading carefully with appreciation

to skip over; to miss reading

In a collection of classical Japanese poetry

author unknown; anonymous

Computing

read-only

to read through (difficult passage or particularly long book)

reading a word backwards (often to make slang)

illegible; indecipherable

audiobook on a CD-ROM